Karl Orff's            

             Carmina Burana

Also on the program

Jubilate Deo
by Benjamin Britten

Cantique de Jean Racine
 by Gabriel Fuaré 

I was Glad
by Hubert Parry

Christ Church Choir
Laura Ramsey Russell - conductor
Christine Howlett - soprano soloist

Featuring the BachFest Choir and Orchestra
under the direction of Laura Ramsey Russell

  James Ruff in the role of the Evangelist 
  Kent Smith in the role of Jesus

Click on the links below to listen to selections:

No. 1   "Come ye daughters"
No. 3   " Ah, dearest Jesu"
No. 33 " Alas, my Jesus now is taken"
No. 75  "Come my heart and make thee clean"
No. 78  "Here bide we still"

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Mendelssohn's - Hear My Prayer   

Sunday June 14, 2009 at 10:00 AM

The 10:00am worship service featured Mendelssohn's magnificent choral work, Hear My Prayer.

Laura Doe, soprano was the soloist in this gift of music in conjunction with the Christ Church choir, accompanied by Rob Brown on the organ, under the direction of Laura Russell

Listen to the performance of Mendelssohn's Hear My Prayer.

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Durufle Requiem - Sunday April 5, 2009 at 7:30pm

   
Christ Church Choir
and
West Point Organist
Craig Williams

Requiem by Maurice Durufle was written 1947 in memory of his father. The Requiem combines Gregorian Chant and Monet-like Impressionist harmonies. Duruflé wrote very few original tunes for this piece, but rather imbedded the Gregorian chant into a twentieth-century harmonic language reminiscent of that of Debussy.                                   

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Interfaith Benefit Concert -  Sunday January 25, 2009 at 7:30pm

A Benefit Concert for Rural & Migrant Ministry, featuring the "Jazz Cantata" by Gretchen Gould and "Chichester Psalms" by Leonard Bernstein. The concert included the combined choirs of Shalom Singers, United Methodist Church Choir, Christ Church Choir. The concert also included Mexican Folk Dancers and music by Villa-Lobos for Saxophone and piano.

Christmas Eve Concert - Wednesday December 24, 2008  10:30pm

Benjamin Britten's "Ceremony of Carols"  was performed by the Christ Church Choir,
featuring Jeanmarie Kern Chenette on harp. The Concert was followed by a Festival Christmas Eucharist at 11:00pm with the Christ Church Choir, organ, and strings.



To listen to some excerpts from "Ceremony of Carols" please click on the following links:
Procession
Wolcum Yole
As dew in Aprille  

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Earth Day Concert: Paul Winter's Earth Mass - April 20,2008

   Christ ChurchCreation window
Performed by Christ Church choir with orchestra, featuring saxophonist Lois Hicks-Wozniak.
Earth Mass was created in 1980 as jazz saxophonist Paul Winter was trying to imagine what he would want to hear in a truly contemporary Mass. Winter recorded the sounds of several endangered species, including the humpback whale, Arctic timber wolf, loon, and songbirds, composing music based on the actual sounds that these animals made. The performance  used his recordings of these animal sounds, which are expertly synchronized by a sound technician with the live choral and instrumental music to produce a beautifully eerie and life-affirming ‘soundscape’ for the words of the mass. Earth Mass uses a combination of traditional texts along with poetry from many sources and selections from texts attributed to St. Francis.

    Two additional pieces were included in the Earth Day concert. Irae Variae, an instrumental work by New Paltz composer Shirley Hoffman Warren for saxophone, cello and piano is a set of variations on the Dies Irae portion of the Mass. It embodies a variety of diverse musical styles
   A new choral work Lord, Grant us your Peace by Poughkeepsie-raised composer Jonathan Russell was premiered at the concert. Russell, who now lives in San Francisco, sets texts from the psalms and by St. Francis in a mixture of Gregorian chant and jazz ‘groove’ rhythms.